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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
And historically even more voters voted for a party that could only balance the budget with enormous and unprecedented energy royalties rolling into government coffers year after year.
Just wait until a government makes a genuine effort to balance the provincial budget without relying on energy royalties. After every independent outside analyst recommends a sales tax as an obvious measure (as they have every other time the issue has been studied), we'll see just how dumb Alberta voters really are.
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Most of the scholars and analysts calling for a pst also call for reductions in income tax rates and exemptions and bundle the whole thing as an enhancement of the Alberta advantage. Now that we have raised income tax and added a sales tax we don't get to keep (carbon tax), we've totally lost the plot on that whole plan.